Michael Jackson
I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.Collection: Plans
When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.Collection: Decision
Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.Collection: Hate
The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world.Collection: Hate
James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.Collection: Music
I am going to say something I have never said before and this is the truth. I have no reason to lie to you and God knows I am telling the truth. I think all my success and fame and I have wanted it, I have wanted it because I wanted to be loved. That's all. That's the real truth.Collection: Real
Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.Collection: Looks
Those who criticize, they desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the power I was sent forth, for the world for the children. But have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now.Collection: Children
Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.Collection: Mistake
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.Collection: Music
They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.Collection: Humorous
I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.Collection: Dream
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.Collection: Dance
We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.Collection: Matter
Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.Collection: Wise
With two children of my own, I know what it means to balance the demands of family and career - and let's not even talk about finding a date for myself. Rabbi Shmuley keeps telling me he'll find me the perfect woman. My response is, 'As long as she's not a journalist'.Collection: Children
I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.Collection: Home
It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.Collection: Past
I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.Collection: Thinking
I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.Collection: Next
I do disguises for different reasons. I like to study people - be like the fly on the wall. Even if it's two old ladies sitting on a bench or some kids on a swing. Because I don't know what it's like to fit in an everyday life situation.Collection: Wall
The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.Collection: Children
If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.Collection: Hate
Once at a record store in San Francisco, over a thousand kids showed up. They pushed forward and broke a window. A big piece of glass fell on top of this girl. And the girl's throat was slit. She just got slit. And I remember there was blood everywhere. Oh God, so much blood. And she grabbed her throat and was bleeding and everyone just ignored her. Why? Because I was there and they wanted to grab at me and get my autograph. I wonder whatever happened to that girl.Collection: Girl
Wherever you go - in every country, or in every continent, people yearn and hunger for only one thing, to love and be loved. Love transcends international boundaries and heals the wounds of hatred, racial, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance. It is the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.Collection: Country
Being a world traveler, I'm touched and moved by everything that happens, especially to children. It gets me emotionally sick and I go through a lot of pain when I see that type of pain. I can't pretend as if I don't see it. It affects me very much.Collection: Children
I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.Collection: Dream
Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.Collection: Common Purpose
I believe that through music we can help heal the world.Collection: Believe
When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].Collection: Looks
In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisonerCollection: Mean
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.Collection: Song
When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.Collection: Happens
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.Collection: Thinking
The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown.Collection: Recipes
I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.Collection: Sweet
No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.Collection: Moving
As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.Collection: Baby
Remember my strong advice; just remember to always think twice.Collection: Strong
But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth.Collection: Memories
You have to be loyal and true to one another, or your love will never last!Collection: Loyal
The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.Collection: Stupid
I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design.Collection: Eye
Damned indecision and cursed pride.Collection: Relationship
The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.Collection: Real
Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.Collection: Crazy
Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'Collection: Moving
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.Collection: Character
I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then, it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance.Collection: Dance